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Teacher Inquiry Communities Network in Action

Inside Inquiry: A Second Look

The Teacher Inquiry Communities Network offers a four-day summer institute to support Writing Project sites that are new to the process of supporting inquiry communities or that want to revitalize their inquiry communities by taking a fresh look at how to work with them. More ›

Featured Resources

Article Exploring Process, Inquiry, and the Benefits of Site Research Wins Award

Researchers from the South Coast Writing Project compared the classroom practice of teachers who had experienced their site's inquiry-based professional development with the practice of those who hadn't—and reaped unexpected benefits More ›

What Data-Driven Instruction Should Really
Look Like

Kathie Marshall argues that data-driven instruction should come from groups of teachers working together on research and using data to improve instruction—rather than having data monitored as a way of checking NCLB "compliance." More ›

Beyond Strategies: Teacher Practice, Writing Process, and the Influence of Inquiry

These case studies of two teachers, one who worked with the South Coast Writing Project in an inquiry-oriented inservice program and one who did not, explore how they each interpret and implement a process-centered theory of writing in different ways. More ›

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